JarScan, scan all JAR files in all subfolders for specific class

Question

We are seeing an older version of a class being used, although we had the latest one deploy. To scan all JAR files in all subfolders of an application server, how do we writ

Answer 1

The tool JAR Explorer is pretty useful.

It pops open a GUI window with two panels. You can pick a directory, the tool will scan all the JAR files in that directory, then let you search for a specific class. The lower panel then lights up with a list of hits for that class in all the scanned JAR files.